What’s on this month

March events

Wednesday  4^th – Sanderstead Literary Society – “American Presidents” – 8pm – SURC, Sanderstead Hill – www.surc.org.uk/groups/

Monday 9^th – Croydon RSPB Group – “Operation Turtle Dove update” by Rick Bayne – Croham Road Baptist Church, 7.30pm – www.group.rspb.org.uk/croydon

Thursday 12^th – Croydon Arts Society – “Holbein” – 10am – All Saints’ Church Hall – www.tascroydon.org.uk

Wednesday 18^th – Sanderstead Literary Society – “Staying in Empty Hotels” – 8pm – SURC, Sanderstead Hill – www.surc.org.uk/groups/

Saturday 21^st – Sanderstead Horticultural Society Spring Show – 2pm- at All Saints’ Church Hall – www.sandersteadhs.org

Tuesday 24^th – Sanderstead Arts Society – “Not in Front of the Audience: Censorship on the British Stage” – SURC, Sanderstead Hill, 10.15am – www.theartssocietysanderstead.org.uk

Wednesday 25^th – The Sanderstead Local History Group – “Croydon Carnival – Streets of Adventure.  It started out as a fancy dress cricket match and grew to become a major Croydon event that helped fund the local hospital, by Phil Swallow & Richard Pacitti – 1.45pm at All Saint’s Church Hall www.sandersteadlhg.co.uk

Wednesday 25^th – The Story Sanctuary (old library building in Sanderstead Hill) – Monthly Mending Clinic – 6.30-9pm – Events • The Story Sanctuary

Drop In and Say Hi – The Story Sanctuary on a Friday or Saturday mornings in March, 10am to 1pm – find out more about what we do.

Saturday 28^th – Rotary quiz night at St Antony’s Church, Wentworth Way – 7.30pm – www.rotarysandersteadandselsdon.com

Spring 2026 edition of Sanderstead News will be posted out to all members in the third week of March.  Packed full of interesting local articles and information.

If you know of a local event in March not listed here, please let us know.

Our local Friends groups would welcome help to maintain our wonderful green spaces:

The Friends of Wettern Tree Garden – Saturday 7th and Saturday 14th March, 10am. https://www.friendsofwetterntreegarden.co.uk/

Litter Picking in the Recreation Ground – Saturday 14th March 10am by The Hive

Friends of Purley Beeches – Saturday 21st March, 10-12 noon. https://www.friendsofpurleybeeches.co.uk/

Sanderstead Plantation Partners meet every Wednesday 10am

Friends of Croham Hurst Woods Work Day – Saturday 28th February, 10am. https://friendsofcrohamhurstwoods.com/

The Story Sanctuary – Front Garden Maintenance Drop In – 10am to 2pm on the First Tuesday and Third Friday of the month